Nordic Pole Walking Fitness

09/22/2025

Happy 1st day of 🍂AUTUMN🍁‼️ ❤️autumn🍃🍂🍁 (these photos were not snapped in my present geographical location)

09/21/2025

....although it will not look like or feel like this where I live until November 😕😑...I will still rejoice that it has arrived 🍁🍂

09/21/2025

Exercising at any point in the day provides overall health benefits, but the benefits may vary depending on what time of the day you choose to work out.

08/03/2025

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B081Y3ZQW8/?tag=ebookd1-20
This is available on kindle today 08/03/25

In 35 guided mindfulness walks, Glenn Berkenkamp invites us to discover how we sense, move, think, and feel in our bodies--and engage a greater sense of presence and being in our lives. Like any contemplative practice, through walking we can quiet our minds and come to know ourselves better, ...

05/17/2025

A new special event on July 25—Mile for the Ages—a celebration of fitness, determination and community.

05/17/2025

We often chase fitness trends, apps, and routines that promise transformation—but sometimes, the simplest habits are the most powerful. Walking, that overlooked daily activity, might just ... Continue Reading →

04/29/2025

Walking - the underrated super power 💪🚶‍♀️🚶‍♂️

Walking might seem like the most ordinary thing we do—but the science says it’s an underrated super-power. Over…

04/13/2025

Once suffering with heart failure and diabetes, Denis Collen implemented many lifestyle changes and along the way discovered Nordic Walking.
The benefits of the full-body cardio workout plus the added benefit of being outdoors were so well-liked by he and his wife that they both became instructors.

Denis Collen, 60, from Stanmore, Middlesex, shares how a diagnosis of diabetes and heart failure spurred him to make healthy lifestyle changes.

04/13/2025

Christine Stanley who has is an accredited British Nordic Walking Instuctor.

When asked why Nordic walking helped with the condition, Ms Stanley said: "It helps you to balance, co-ordination, good movement, which is really good for the neural pathway."

Christine Stanley is the first UK woman with Parkinson's to gain a Nordic walking accreditation.

04/13/2025

Richard Harvey who has states,"All the literature I read said vigorous exercise for at least two and a half hours every week could help to slow the disease's progression".

Me: "Over the years I have taught several Parkinson's inviduals in Canada and the USA how to Nordic Pole Walk, which one can progress into a vigorous exercise".

Richard Harvey has been living with a diagnosis of the degenerative brain condition for three years.

03/28/2025

Nordic walking was superior to standard cardiac rehabilitation care in improving functional capacity and other important outcomes in patients with heart failure.

Patients with heart failure are a growing population within cardiac rehabilitation. The purpose of this study was to compare, through a single-centre, parallel-group, randomized controlled trial, the effects of Nordic walking and standard cardiac rehabilitation care on functional capacity and other....

02/14/2025